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Bananarama - Wow! Audio CD

A fair review of the Bananarama "Wow!" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Bananarama reviews here, or go back to the Bananarama tabs.

Bananarama Band: Bananarama
Title: Wow!
Rating:
Release Date: 2007-03-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Can't Help It 2: I Heard a Rumor 3: Some Girls 4: Love in the First Degree 5: Once in a Lifetime 6: Strike It Rich 7: Bad for Me 8: Come Back 9: Nathan Jones 10: I Want You Back 11: Clean Cut Boy (Party Size) [*] 12: Mr Sleaze [*] 13: Ecstasy (Wild Style) [*] 14: Nathan Jones [Psycho 7" Edit][*] 15: I Want You Back [Single Version][*] 16: Amnesia (The Theme from the Roxy] [*] 17: Nathan Jones [Single Version][*]

A classic
I myself was a huge fan of theirs, not because they were the best group in the world during the British Syn-Pop invasion of 80s, but because they had fun and its translated into their music - WOW! being their most mainstream album thanks to the talents of the producers. If you were coming into your own in the 1980s, then you probably knew about Bananarama, or could say that you had heard their songs. This makes WOW! the most accessible of the groups's albums. The songs also gave themselves over to dance mixes with great ease, so many of the songs on the album made the transistion to club scene in the 1980s and early 1990s without a lot of effort. To me the album holds special meaning - it was the last record I bought brand new on vinyl, and the record album cover really captured the group's essence.

If there is anything unplesant about this album though, its what it represents - Bananarama's swan song book, so to speak. After wrapping up the album, Siobhan Fahey dropped out of the group after she married Dave Stewart (one half of the Eurythmics) and was replaced by another singer (Jaquie) that the remaining two 'nanners (Keren and Sarah) knew. When Jaquie discovered that she was just there to fill out the trio, she split leaving Kerin & Sarah to go do what they do, and without an earthy third in the group, the newer material is simply "breathy" and high pitched fluff. So WOW! represents the group at the top of its game, if not a bit too synthpop for many die hard fans.

Still this is a polished an accessible album of synthpop songs that aren't too serious, and very silly and a lot of fun along the way.


Wow id Right.
There's strong songs, writing, vocals, videos, and Sex!
Great songs like "Love in The First Degree", "I Can't Help It", "I Want You Back", "Nathan Jones", "I Heard A Rumor" and really all the rest. This is a really great album. Many songs here became hits for the group, whether it was the album version or a dance mix. You can't go wrong with this lp if you're looking for a great Bananarama cd. It's close to a greatest hits lp. .


Nothing like the first 3 CD's
THIS IS MORE OF A PRODUCERS ALBUM THAN A GROUP ALBUM. IF YOU LIKE LIGHT DISCO POP FROM THE LATE EIGHTIES, ESPECIALLY DEAD OR ALIVE, THAN YOU WILL LOVE THIS CD.

Released in 1987, this is Bananarama's fourth album (not their third as others have said). It is 42 minutes long and the sound quality is pretty good but not excellent.

This is one of those CD's that is more influenced by the producers than it is by the group. This is not like previous Bananarama albums.

The CD was produced by the disco producing team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman. It sounds just like any of their other disco CD's from the late eighties, especially Dead or Alive. This is cookie cutter, by-the-numbers fluff. It could be anybody singing the songs and it wouldn't make any difference.

The music is light, fluffy drivel. The lyrics are love songs (Guilty of Love in the First Degree) targetted at teenage girls. There is no emotion or interest in the music.

Bananarama's talent is really wasted on this CD. The songs are sung in a boring, straight ahead manner. It could be anyone singing the songs. It rarely features the overlapping styles or the playing off of each other.

The only good song on this CD is the R&B classic, Nathan Jones. This song goes back to the older Bananarama releases and shows how good the band can really be.

This British version of disco pop was very popular for about two years, but quickly died by 1988. Groups like Dead or Alive had million sellers one ablum, and the very next album wouldn't even chart.

NOTE THAT THERE ARE OTHER VERSIONS OF THIS CD BONUS TRACKS WITH FEWER TRACKS, BUT INCLUDE THE DANCE MIXES OF SOME SONGS.


expanded--yet EDITED songs from original pressing!
Sure, it has a bunch of remixes and bonus tracks, but in order to cram those songs onto here, they have taken the 12" versions of Some Girls and Strike it Rich and edited them! Some Girls is now a little over 4 minutes verses its near 6 minute version, and Strike it Rich has gone from 6 minutes to under 3 minutes!!! Oh well, guess I'll be keeping two versions of this CD. Well, if you already have the original US pressing of this CD, you're in for a little shock here. For those who are wondering, The reissues of Deep Sea Skiving, Bananarama and True Confessions do NOT edit any of the original songs, yet still manage to squeeze on a load of bonus tracks.


Still Bananariffic after 20 years.
1 in America with their Stock Aitken Waterman-produced cover of "Venus," the all girl group reunited with SAW to record 1987's "Wow. When Bananarama hit No. " It spawned more UK hit singles than any of their other albums, and it helped put Stock Aitken Waterman on the map as bonafide hitmakers with a then-Midas touch. The obvious hits ("Love in the First Degree," I Want You Back," "I Heard a Rumor") are here, but the album tracks "Some Girls" and "Strike it Rich" are just as infectious. If you savor perky dance pop with an energetic twist, you'll be in seventh heaven with "Wow. " .


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